WANGANUI.
[From the Wellington Independent, July 29.]
The determination of the Governor not to give up Wanganui, bad created general satisfaction amongst the settlers, who had set to work with renewed vigour. The appointment of Mr. M'Lean to settle the land question, had likewise been received by the settlers as a boon from the Governor, since it is believed that if any man can settle the complicated question, that man is Mr. M'Lean. The following extract from a private letter, dated July 18, is worthy of consideration : —
"Our greatest pest here is tbe occasional visits of strange natives from up the river, and who annoy our community during their stay by pilfering and stealing. This evil, I conceive, is very easily to be remedied, by the Governor empowering some of our own chiefs to act as constabulary, and I hope this will be adopted, It is not enough, nor the best way, to give them a reward for the restoration of stolen goods, but much better to give them a reward for prevention, and by a little system they could prevent them from annoying the inhabitants as they do. Indeed, I have been given to understand, that our natives are anxious themselves for some such arrangement being made by the Governor."
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 233, 22 August 1846, Page 99
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